Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century

Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century

by Jim Phillips
Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century

Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century

by Jim Phillips

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Overview

Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal miner

Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland’s economic, social and political history, and highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that eventually resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The book also uses the struggle of the mineworkers to explore working class wellbeing more broadly during the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that saw jobs, workplaces and communities devastated.

Key features

  • Examines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised process
  • Uses generational analysis to explain economic and political change
  • Relates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic security and working class welfare
  • Analyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safety
  • Relates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474452328
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 02/16/2021
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jim Phillips is Professor in Economic & Social History at the University of Glasgow, and author of Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2019) and with Valerie Wright and Jim Tomlinson Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy since 1955 (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2021).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction: Scottish Coal Miners and Economic Security; Part One. Legislation: Ownership and Welfare; Chapter 1 Changing Ownership and Employment; Chapter 2 Changing Communities and Collieries; Chapter 3 Improving Safety; Part Two. Education: Political Learning and Activity; Chapter 4 Generational learning: from the 1920s to the 1950s; Chapter 5 Miners and the Scottish Nation: from the 1950s to the 1970s; Part Three. Organisation: For Jobs, Wages and Communities; Chapter 6 Resisting Closures and Winning Wages in the 1960s and 1970s; Chapter 7 Campaigning For Jobs and Communities in the 1980s; Legacy and Conclusion; Bibliography.
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